11 Aug
2004
11 Aug
'04
9:16 a.m.
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Fred Cisin wrote:
Well, sure. But then I went on to imply that this method has problems
(one of which you just pointed out).
Still, it bears consideration.
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On Wed, 11 Aug
2004, David V. Corbin wrote:
> At the minimal the archive would consist of every byte in the stream. Since
> there is the potential for loarge areast of "no-data", previous posters
> suggested using the intel format which consists of an offset [address] and a
> number of data bytes represented in ascii hex characters.
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
Ok, I see now. This makes absolute sense. It
also somewhat effects a
form of implicit compression, which is good. By explicitly specifying
where the data goes on the medium, you could then leave out any sections
that are just zeroes.
or E5h? (fill byte for "no data" on CP/M formatting)
or F6h?
rather than "leave out" any sections that are just zeroes,
put in a tag that says "x 00's", "x E5's", etc.